Even though he is a famous movie star, Ralph Fiennes sometimes feels insecure and has anxiety issues.

The actor suffers from panic attacks and he often wakes up in the middle of the night in a sweat.

He told Britain’s Esquire magazine: ”I have huge anxiety attacks. I’ll wake up early in the morning with my brain anxious about something and I don’t even know what it is, just a general sense of profound uncertainty. It’s from the unconscious, I suppose, fears about existence. A weird twilight zone. We feel we can organize our lives and have an order that we can control but really we can’t, it’s always paper-thin and underneath there’s this lurking chaos. You think, ‘F**k! This could come at me at any moment!’ ”

Fiennes also says that his anxiety sometimes affects his social life as meeting new people can be difficult for him.

”I get accused of zoning out of conversations and gazing into the middle distance, which I do when I’m somehow not at ease. I often feel a bit lost in social situations and that’s when I can button up. I have moments – not ever y day – when I feel myself retreating. Later on I’ll think, ‘That person meant well. I didn’t need to be like that’,” Ralph explains.

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